Recently, I’ve become very interested in iPhone web app development and Grails, so I decided to merge the two into a little project. Using Grails, jQTouch, and jQuery, I built an application to search a variety of torrent portals and aggregate the results. I could describe the application, but why not just head over to [...]
Lorum Ipsum and such jQuery has plugins. Lots of them, in fact. The jQuery plugin page lists hundreds of additions to the base jquery package. These plugins make web development even easier and more glamorous than jQuery alone, doing splendid things like Show dialogs. Now isn’t that cool? jQuery plugins let external authors write neat [...]
Point 1. jQuery emphasizes brevity. $(document).ready( function() { $(‘#hideSlowLink’).click(function() { $(‘.toHide’).hide(‘slow’); setTimeout(function(){$(‘.toHide’).show()},3000); return false; }); $(‘#hideRedSlowLink’).click(function() { $(‘.toHide’).css(‘color’,'red’).hide(‘slow’); setTimeout(function(){$(‘.toHide’).show().css(‘color’,'black’);},3000); return false; }); }); The title pretty much states it all. Nearly everything I used to hate about making web pages fancy and functional is alleviated with a few lines of jQuery. With a few dollar [...]
So, what do do from here, you ask? Learn jQuery. I’ve always been opposed to the web as platform, mostly due to IE6, but flex has convinced me that there is a light, and jQuery seems to be another beacon in the treatorous sea that is supporting internet explorer.